Diurnal and semidiurnal internal waves on the southern slope of the Yermak Plateau

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Wang, Shuya, Cao, Anzhou, Li, Qun, Chen, Xu
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Yermak Plateau; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9270340/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35804042; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15662-0

The Yermak Plateau (YP) is located across the Arctic–Atlantic gateway in the northwest of the Svalbard archipelago. In this region, internal waves are believed to cause intense turbulent mixing and hence influence the heat budget in the Arctic Ocean. Based on year-long observations from three moorin...